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Switching between tabs using a swipe is one of the most convenient ways to move from one webpage to another in a mobile browser. While this feature has been available in Google Chrome for quite some time, the mobile version of Firefox is still lacking this tool. It has now been revealed that developers at Mozilla will add the […] function to their browser.
Google has proposed the inclusion of the first set of patches with the implementation of components necessary for supporting the M:N thread model into the Linux kernel. Google's initiative is related to the unveiling of the previously closed API SwitchTo for the Linux kernel, which supports a multithreaded subsystem implemented in user space, utilizing the M:N thread model. This subsystem is used by Google to ensure […]
The release of the distributed source control system Git 2.28.0 is now available. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible tools for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. Implicit hashing of the entire history in each commit is used to ensure the integrity of history and resilience against changes made "after the fact," and digital signatures can also be employed […]
What should you consider when choosing a VPN router for a distributed network? And what features should it have? This is the focus of our review of the ZyWALL VPN1000. Introduction Until now, most of our publications have been dedicated to smaller VPN devices for network access from remote locations. For example, for connecting various branches to the headquarters, accessing the network of small standalone […]
Hello, I am Dmitry Logvinenko — Data Engineer in the analytics department of the "Vezet" group of companies. I will tell you about a wonderful tool for developing ETL processes — Apache Airflow. However, Airflow is so versatile and multifaceted that you should consider it even if you are not dealing with data streams but need to periodically run certain processes and monitor their execution. […]
Switch, the operator of the Citadel Campus data center, along with Capital Dynamics, plans to invest $1.3 billion in creating a system of solar power plants and battery storage. The system will be quite large, with a total capacity of 555 MW from the solar plants and a total capacity of the Tesla Megapack "mega battery" of 800 MWh. Solar panels will be supplied by First Solar. According to the partners, the systems […]
After eight months of development, the release of the open-source hypervisor Xen 4.14 has been published. Companies such as Alibaba, Amazon, AMD, Arm, Bitdefender, Citrix, EPAM Systems, Huawei, and Intel participated in the development of this release. The release updates for the Xen 4.14 branch will continue until January 24, 2022, and publication of vulnerability fixes will last until July 24, 2023. Key changes in Xen […]
A new release of Telegram Desktop 2.2 is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The Telegram client software code is written using the Qt library and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. In the new version: The ability to quickly switch between multiple Telegram accounts linked to different phone numbers has been added. Support for storing and granting access to files of any type, up to […]
The "Meow" attack continues to gain momentum, during which unknown attackers are destroying data in publicly available unprotected installations of Elasticsearch and MongoDB. Isolated cases of cleaning (approximately 3% of all victims) have also been recorded for unprotected databases based on Apache Cassandra, CouchDB, Redis, Hadoop, and Apache ZooKeeper. The attack is carried out through a bot that scans standard database network ports. The study […]
In this article, we will explore what smart contracts are, the different types that exist, familiarize ourselves with various smart contract platforms and their features, as well as discuss how they work and the advantages they may offer. This material will be very useful for readers who are not very familiar with the topic of smart contracts but want to get closer to understanding it. Regular contract vs. smart contract […]
The first public release of the Pi-KVM project has taken place — a set of programs and instructions that allows you to turn a Raspberry Pi board into a fully functional IP-KVM switch. The board connects to the HDMI/VGA and USB ports of the server, enabling remote management regardless of the operating system. You can power on, power off, or reboot the server, configure the BIOS, and even completely reinstall the operating system from a bootable image: Pi-KVM can emulate […]
The release of the window manager xfwm4 version 4.14.3 has been published, which is used in the Xfce desktop environment to manage window display on the screen, decorate windows, and organize their movement, closing, and resizing. The new release adds support for the X11 extension XRes (X-Resource), which is employed to request information about the PID of an application running using sandbox isolation mechanisms from the X server. The support for XRes addresses the issue […]
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